What is the expected behavior of the following program? print(\"Goodbye!\")

Question

Options

• AThe program will generate an error message on the screen
• BThe program will output "Goodbye!"
• CThe program will output Goodbye!
• DThe program will output ("Goodbye!")

• A
  77% (17)
• B
  5% (1)
• C
  14% (3)
• D
  5% (1)

Explanation

Option A is correct because the backslash characters before the quotation marks (\") make this invalid Python syntax - Python expects plain " or ' to delimit strings, and placing \" outside a string literal causes a SyntaxError at runtime. Option B and C are wrong because they describe the output of valid Python (print("Goodbye!")), but the escaped quotes mean this code never executes successfully enough to produce any output. Option D is wrong because Python's print() function never includes the surrounding parentheses in its output - that's not how any version of Python works. Memory tip: Think of the backslash as a "string-only escape hatch" - \" is only meaningful inside a string (e.g., "She said \"hi\""), never as a way to wrap one.

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